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A long line forms to share celebratory hugs and get a photo with the best-selling author posed in a beautiful red dress on a bed filled with rose petals – the perfect backdrop for the launch of a sexy new romance novel. If you didn’t know her, you’d be surprised that this small town girl […]

Where iconic late night talk show hosts such as Johnny Carson marked milestones in their career by showing their funniest and most awkward moments on camera, John Kerwin doesn’t wait for a career milestone to share his funny and awkward moments with his fans. Working in a genre that is often heavily scrutinized, John Kerwin […]

Over the last decade, shoppers have laid to rest the paper-or-plastic question once and for all by using a set of reusable shopping bags. It’s a simple way to use less. Just like giving up plastic bags, eco-conscious stores and shoppers are going beyond the bag to eliminate unnecessary packaging altogether. Just imagine a shopping cart filled with food and not a single box, can or […]

When Gabrielle Anwar was a little girl, growing up in a Middlesex, England country village, she made more caterpillar egg cartons than she can remember. It wasn’t that the actress’s family couldn’t afford toys. “We’re not big spenders and we lived a very simple life,” she says. “It was the 1970s and Green Peace wasn’t hip, but it was an emerging movement. However, I always found the […]

According to a University of Oxford study, people who monitored their energy use saved 5 to 15 percent more energy. Still not convinced? Here are just a few reasons to try energy monitoring. Understand energy costs of ‘vampire’ devices, long showers, leaving the lights on, keeping the HVAC system on, etc. Detect if appliances need […]

When it comes to home energy use, the popular business axiom, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” applies. Even after people learn that they can save energy and money by turning off the lights and unplugging their phone chargers, there are no measurements or concrete dollar figures. And often, it’s not enough to get someone […]

After assembling a work crew to build an eco-friendly home from the ground up, Amy Holmwood observed that not all of the contractors were green to the core. A company hired to install insulation made of recycled newspaper used a diesel generator to power the equipment instead of a cleaner, greener power source like solar. […]